Statistical manipulation gets stricter supervision

Incorporating statistical manipulation as a violation of the discipline of the Communist Party of China will offer strengthened disciplinary guarantees to prevent and address this issue, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday.

In December, the CPC Central Committee issued the revised Regulations on CPC Disciplinary Action, which newly included statistical manipulation as a violation of Party discipline.

The NBS highlighted that statistical fraud is the greatest example of corruption in the field of statistics, seriously violating related laws, affecting the quality of statistical data and obstructing and even misleading macro decision-making.